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Color blind : the forgotten team that broke baseball's color line / Tom Dunkel.

by Dunkel, Tom.

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Atlantic Monthly Press, c2013.

Baseball teams -- North Dakota -- Bismarck -- History -- 20th century.

Discrimination in sports -- History.

Semi-professional baseball -- History.

Racism in sports -- History.

xiii, 345 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-345).

Preface: Before 42 -- Coming together. Prairieland of opportunity ; Grasshoppers and hickory sticks ; Birth of a salesman ; Worlds apart ; Over the color line ; Throwing fire ; Showtime ; Nameless dread -- Playing together. Come and gone ; Feeling the heat ; Marriages and separations ; Cat and moose ; Long rifle rides again ; "A riotous opera of extra-base hits..." -- Tested together. Little man, big idea ; Gunfight at the cowtown corral ; Big gun ; The Erle of Oklahoma ; Last team standing ; "Plenty of barn room" ; Endings ; Deep smoke winding.

Dunkel traces the rise of a Bismarck, North Dakota, integrated semi-professional baseball team and follows them through their ups and downs, focusing on the 1935 season, and the first National Semi-Pro Tournament in Wichita, Kansas--a decade before Jackie Robinson broke into the Major Leagues.

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